EDC For Black Scout Survival (Video & Transcript)

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Number of speakers: 1 (Tyler)
Duration: 16 min 23 sec

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EDC For Black Scout Survival

Hey this is Tyler with T Jack survival and today I am going to demo my little survival kit. This is the smallest one that I have. I have a bunch of little kits. One is a fire kit, survival kit, communications kit, and for the channel Black Scout Survival he has asked me to do this little kit. So stay tuned.”

“So a quick little discussion on the concepts behind what you should do or what you should use to put inside of your EDC kit. Now first off, it needs to be small, okay. This little kit I can just grab and put in the pocket of my pant leg. I can leave it in another bag. I can throw it in my work bag with my lunch. I can do a lot of stuff with it because it is so small and mobile.”

“The second thing is it needs to be able either cover or assist you in covering the major survivor related items. Fire, water, shelter, food. In addition to that I like to add communication, security, and power for communication and possibly observation. Communication is going to be your cell phone, HAM radio or something like that.”

“Power for communication is going to be a battery pack, a solar panel, a solar panel with a battery pack back up that triple charges or some way for you to continue to power your devices.”

“Security is going to be a knife, a pistol or something to keep the animals off of you or from attacking you that usually can double as a good hunting tool. So I’ve got communication, power, and security. The other ones are fairly self-explanatory. Fire is incredibly important. You can’t do anything without fire for the most part. You need it to boil water. Eventually when your tools like your filters or chemical purification runs out it always comes back to water boiling. That is your basis, your fall back for everything. So, fire needs to be there to boil water, you need it for heat, you need it for a friend, you need it to cook food. Sometimes you need it to boil certain plants to gain the nutrients from there. So fire is incredibly important. That is why I have a couple different versions of fire in my kit.”

“When it comes to a kit, you don’t always just have to be fire, water, shelter, food. The things that you need to use on a regular basis like a pen and paper. That’s not fire, water, shelter and food. Yeah I can grind up my paper and catch it on fire but it’s not really its original intent. However, it is incredible useful. It’s something I use all the time writing down notes, description’s, leave pictures of dead fall or a figure four or a loaded spring trap or whatever trap that you want. You can put that all on your paper. You can burn your paper if you need to but if you don’t need to then you’ve got it.”

“Another item that is not as good, the little peanut lighter that I have in my bag is not as good a fire starter for me as that striker is because that striker, I am very successful with that striker on a regular basis but that little peanut lighter doesn’t always work. However, I keep it in there because it is good to have a flame back up. When you make your EDC kit don’t just focus on survival but look at things that you can use that is useful. Maybe allergy medication, Visine eye drops, Chap Stick, extra batteries. I have a larger kit that has extra batteries and a head lamp in it. I don’t have that in this kit because I just never need it. I’ve always got in my larger kits the flash lights and stuff. It is a true survival situation let your eyeballs adjust to the moonlight and drive on. I’ve done plenty of forest marches at night with no lights at all. It is completely doable.”

“Anyways, that is just the basic concept that I wanted to give you on your kit. Get your fire, water, shelter, food and if you have a large enough kit cover, communication, power for communication and security. Oh and I’m sorry, the last one, observation. A pair of binoculars or a way to hide your self is observation. Either see or be seen. If you’ve got some money maybe some night vision googles. It’s a military concept I’m bringing in anyways.”

“Use the little kits to assist the larger kits. Use your little kit in conjunction with the canteen cup and poncho. Or a bigger kit that’s got MREs and food and a rifle and all that other fun stuff. But truly, if you have the right skill set you don’t need any of the gear but it’s not about need it’s about “Man I wish I had a go lock to chop this tree down instead of this rock.” Or its about, ”Man I wish I had some chemical purification so I can just drop it in and go so I don’t have to sit here and make a fire and boil my water.” So try and find the items that give the absolute most bang for the buck that are small and will fit in your small kit.”

“So I’ve got this Maxpedition hard use gear bag right here and there is a fatty and a mini. This one is the mini. I don’t remember the full name of it. It’s the mini something. And there is a couple of things that I like to have in my actual EDC survival kit. I am constantly doing stuff with my 550 cord.”

“So I’ve got this little guy right here called a peanut lighter. Now the peanut lighter is just a baby Zippo. There we’ve got the spark and the little wick and then it’s just got fuel on the bottom. You can just pull it out like that and that will give you the ability to add more fuel to the bottom of this. It’s just Zippo fuel. I would have quite literally a Zippo fuel tank right here that I’ve attached to it on the key chain. Then fortunately this guy has a O-ring there so I can tighten it up. I can get the stuff to align. It won’t lose all its juice. One of the biggest failures of a Zippo light is that if you leave it for a long period of time it will evaporate and run out of juice. So I’ve got back up juice and then I’ve got the juice in there.”

“Another thing I’ve got in there is Chap Stick. Not only is it good for your lips it can also be added to dry kindling right. Then you can put a spark on that and it works as a mini candle. So if you’ve got some dry grass or something you can always add this to it. Then I have fire pistons in my kit that is dedicated to teaching fire. And it is a really good way to lubricate the O-ring on a fire piston. So I leave that in there as well.”

“My primary fire starter is this ESEE Ferro Rod. It’s got, the reason why I really like this one the most. First off that’s a big fat chunk of Ferrocerium steel right there, but secondarily its got a really nice compass in there. So that’s a really nice secondary item to have. Now what I’ve done is added in the back of this cotton and petroleum jelly. The cotton works as a wick and the petroleum jelly burns. A little close up there. With this cotton and petroleum jelly all I have to do is take a pinch of it, spread it out, hit that with a spark and I’ve got anywhere from a one to five minute flame that I can use to light my kindling. On this is a big, huge O-ring on the inside of there that is replaceable that keeps everything dry but fortunately cotton and petroleum jelly, you can get it damp, you can even get it wet and it’ll still take a spark as long as you just flip all the water off it.”

“Alright this little guy, this little snake, is just a high carbon steel and this is an ember lit fire striker. An Ember Lit Fire Striker. He’s got a lot of cool designs. This one he just added, it’s the same design as the old school hand forged stuff but it’s got a cool little rattle snake on it. I really like this one; it’s one of my more favorite ones. (Demonstration) You can see a couple sparks coming off there. I can see them, its daylight though so I’m not sure if you can. So all I do is add a little char cloth to that. When I carry that I have a little Altoids tin with char cloth in it that I add to it. So I’ve got a rock, a little striker.”

“This is a nice little back up. It doesn’t add a lot of weight. Basically what this guy is, is a razor and a saw. A little hack saw. The hacksaw is nice. It’s kind of a mechanism you can use to cut out of hand cuffs if you need to. I happen to use it to put a notch in my bow drill but it’s really nice having that super light back up in there. So I just throw it in there.”

“One other thing, since this kit usually supplements stuff, like as an example the thing I am supplementing today is my Faullkniven blade. An F1. I always got a knife on me. So when you’re carrying a knife a good thing to have in your EDC is a way to sharpen it. The owner of Faullkniven Knife, Pete, sent me a sharpening stone here. There is a Faullkniven knife and D/C stone. This one is phenomenal because it has a soft stone and a diamond stone. That way you can change the grit. You can grind through with your diamond stone and then finish off with your soft stone and that gives you a lot of options for in the field sharpening.”

“For my signaling device I have a little signaling mirror. It’s just a little SOL signaling mirror. Get a view of that. It’s got the little signaling piece in the middle. There’s a bunch of ways you can run your signaling mirror it’s also nice to be able to use it as a normal mirror for shaving or whatever you want. This is also a type of polymer so it’s not going to crack. It’s not an actual piece of glass. I really like that cause it will handle some abuse. I’ll leave this in its bag and slam that back in there.”

“On this far side, I’ve got 2 pens a write in the rain notebook because I always want to write stuff down. I’m not gonna open that and show you what’s in there but I’ve got pictures of traps, phone numbers, and I’ve got GPS coordinates that I wanted to save. Just always stuff you can do with a little write in the rain memo pad. Paper can be used for kindling. It’s a super multi use.”

“The final thing I’ve got in here is a pick kit. It’s just really nice to have access to a pick kit. This is a very versatile kit. I have stuff for vehicles, stuff for houses, and stuff for little locks. I even have a broken key removing device right here. So what you can do with a kit like this is gain access to old, broken down abandon things. You can get back in your own stuff that you’ve locked yourself out of. You can help people who have locked themselves out of things. This requires some skills associated with it. You don’t just buy this kit and wiggle around and make it work, but if you check on Black Scout Survivals YouTube Channel he has some really solid explanations of how to use these tools. This is a professional version of it but there is also his version which is the small Bogota kit. I have those in my wallet and I love them. They are titanium and they are strong and capable of doing a lot of different things with it.”

“So this is my basic EDC kit. This is the stuff that I just want to keep together in a bundle that I carry. I’ll leave this in my back pack or my bag. In all reality if I go to the field with just this kit, a solid knife, a canteen and a canteen cup, and a poncho and a poncho liner or just a poncho depending on the weather I can survive in just about anything. So I can make a shelter, I can wrap this up and sleep in it, I can hide from people with it; I can collect water with this device. I can boil water in this, I can cook food in it and pour it into my canteen and transport it. I can use normal water put it in my canteen and use a quarter of my tablets, cause I have to have the measurement correct and then I can just chlorinate the water. I can put it in this little container and attach it to my belt and then get this container wet and use evaporative cooling to make sure my water stays wet in the dessert. That is awesome to have. My knife, I’m not even gonna explain what you can do with a knife, you all know that. I just happen to have this guy right here. This is the Bark River Parang. This thing is awesome. You can whip out a shelter with this thing in about a half an hour to an hour. So much faster blowing through the wood than it is using a small knife. Not that it can’t be done, but if you need a basic survival kit that’s complete, that’s it right there. In conjunction with wearing the right amount of clothing, that is all you need in your little set up survival kit.”

“When I made this video I had the intention that showed the stuff that I really use and I grabbed the three things that I normally grab when I am going out by myself and I’m not filming stuff. This is what I’ll take with me. Normally I have a hatchet instead of this Parang because this parang is brand new to me but for certain stuff it is going to replace that hatchet. This is my actual use kit. This is what I take to the field or when I’m hiking. This is my kit.”

“Thank you for watching this video. Please subscribe to T-Jack Survival which is my channel. T J-A-C-K and to Black Scout Survival which you should be watching this video on and thanks for your time guys.”